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– Communist Party of China Senior Official Attends CPRF Congress, Pledges Solidarity with Russian Comrades
– Communist Party USA Chief Sam Webb: Socialism Will Advance Under “Friend of the Party” President Obama
This past weekend, reports state-run Novosti, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) held its 13th congress in Moscow. At the time, communist delegates predictably re-elected Gennady Zyuganov as party chairman, demanded that the Putinist regime renationalize the Russian economy even though it’s already heavily state controlled, denounced the recent extension of the presidential term from four to six years, advocated that the CPRF unite with other openly leftist forces in Russia to oust the potemkin Putinist regime, and agitated for the complete restoration of the Soviet Union, a policy that Putin has already executed on many fronts (e.g., restoration of red star of Bolshevism for symbol of armed forces, and Soviet anthem with some lyrical alteration, etc.).
“It is increasingly obvious that socialism is not a product of propaganda, but a natural and unavoidable phase of development,” boasted Zyuganov, a hard-core Stalinist, “The collapse of the speculative financial market is a turning point.”
Pictured above: Back in the USSR: This past Sunday, on the second day of the CPRF congress, party chairman Zyuganov (center) carries flowers to the Lenin mausoleum. The trappings of the old (new) Soviet regime are evident. There’s no “wishing the USSR back into existence” here, as some Western leftists might contend. The Soviets never went away.
According to our analysis, which is based in part on Soviet Bloc defector testimony such as that of former KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn, the CPRF is the hidden power behind neo-Soviet Russia’s putative rulers, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, President Dmitry Medvedev, and the (crypto-Stalinist) United Russia party. The Soviet strategists are not entirely unknown. They have names and faces, invariably boast connections to the old Soviet regime (1917-1991), and operate with varying degrees of visibility on the Russian and world stages. These names include Putin, Medvedev, Zyuganov, Yevgeny Primakov, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Oleg Shenin. The last was architect of the potemkin August 1991 putsch and is chief of the continuing Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
In many instances, too, the Soviets have in past decades been very frank about their intentions. However, because Western analysts have been deceived by the mantra “communism is dead” and the flood of Marxist propaganda in the Western media, academia, and bureaucracy, the conspirators go about their business for the most part unnoticed and unmolested.
The current global financial crisis has provided communists in the Not-So-Former Soviet Union and elsewhere a prime opportunity to agitate for world revolution and the subjugation of the capitalist nations (such as they are, in view of debilitating compromises with that way station to communism, “social democracy”).
Russia communists slam authorities, call for U.S.S.R. revival
17:06 29/ 11/ 2008
MOSCOW, November 29 (RIA Novosti) – Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov criticized the Russian leadership’s domestic policies on Saturday and said communism was the only remedy for the current financial crisis.
Speaking at a Communist Party congress, Zyuganov said the Kremlin has been promising too much, while doing too little.
“The ruling grouping has not achieved any noticeable success, nor does it have any action plan. It has been guided by the sole goal – to stay in power at any cost,” Zyuganov said.
Zyuganov said the global credit crisis has shown that the collapse of capitalism is inevitable.
“It is increasingly obvious that socialism is not a product of propaganda, but a natural and unavoidable phase of development. The collapse of the speculative financial market is a turning point,” he said.
Zyuganov regretted Russia’s “tragic breakup” with former Soviet republics and called for restoring the Soviet Union, which he said is quite possible. The renationalization of the country’s mining, energy and other “strategic” sectors is “the key task,” he said.
A program of reviving Russia that the party leaders set out at the congress also proposed reinstating direct elections of governors as a more democratic method of selecting regional leaders – abolished by then president Vladimir Putin – cutting bureaucracy, and lifting a moratorium on the death penalty for severe crimes.
The leading opposition force in the country, which resisted Putin’s return as premier and a recent move to extend the presidential term from four to six years, the communists welcome an alliance with other opposition groups, Zyuganov said.
Pictured here: Communists Putin and Zyuganov strategize on July 18 of this year.
Another source contains more extensive quotes from Chairman Zyuganov’s keynote address to the congress. At the time he disclosed his plans to build a communist-led popular front in Russia. In doing so, he revealed the inherent pragmatism of not only Soviet communists, but also their brethren in the USA, who are looking to President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama to communize the country.
In order to change the current reality, there is no other method but an active, multifaceted, and pragmatic policy. As Lenin taught us in his historic work “Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder,” such policy is unimaginable without temporary alliances with our competitors and even opponents and without maneuvering and compromises. It is nearsighted to rule them out on the pretext of preserving your own crystal purity. It is important to seek alliances and compromises that would benefit our common struggle. Such compromises are often equivalent to winning a battle.
However, rotten compromises are unacceptable. Any options leading to the loss of our party’s identity or to its dissolution within other organizations and movements are absolutely unacceptable. At the same time, we have to consider useful and mutually advantageous cooperation with non- Communist forces on a clearly outlined set of issues to attain the ends facing the country and the party.
Under the pressure of circumstances, the Kremlin has unblocked part of the finances, which it was hiding in reserve funds for years and which it disagreed to use for the country’s needs. At the same time, it is necessary to take into account that the allocation of billions and trillions of rubles for financial recovery and the so-called national projects is only a legitimate way to divide this money between the same oligarchic clans, and the Kremlin perfectly understands this.
“The main goal,” concluded Zyuganov, “is to return Russia’s natural riches and the strategic sectors of its economy to society. This concerns above all the power and transportation sectors, the military industry, the oil and gas fields, and the illegally privatized factories and mines.” He also urged the Kremlin to use Russia’s Stabilization Fund money to aid the country’s economic recovery.
In attendance at the CPRF congress was a representative of the overtly ruling Communist Party of China. “The Communist Party of China values the friendly relations with the Communist Party of Russia,” intoned Wu Zhenjun, “and will constantly promote bilateral ties by adhering to existing principles.” The CPC Central Committee sent a letter of congratulation to the congress and hailed Zyuganov’s re-election. For his part, Zyuganov “spoke highly of the relationship between the two parties and the two countries, pledging further efforts to develop bilateral ties.”
On November 7, 150,000 Russian communists–a figure confirmed by the Interior Ministry–took to the streets to celebrate the 91st anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution and smirk over the global financial crisis. In Moscow thousands of reds marched from Pushkin Square to Teatralnaya Ploshchad. Led by Zyuganov, his deputy Ivan Melnikov, who teaches at Moscow State University, and female “Young Pioneers” in red satin caps holding carnations, the demonstrators marched down Tverskaya Ulitsa toward the Kremlin, blocking two lanes of traffic. “Capitalists!” thundered Zyuganov, throwing down the gauntlet, “I recommend you start reading Marx’s ‘Das Kapital.'”
Thousands of OMON riot police (pictured above) surrounded activists from the banned National Bolshevik Party and the Left Front movement, preventing them from entering Teatralnaya Ploshchad. Sergei Udaltsov, leader of the Red Youth Vanguard (AKM), which supports both Zyuganov’s CPRF and Shenin’s CPSU, complained that five members of his organization were arrested for lighting flares. The AKM, which sports an AK-47 and hammer and sickle as its logo, recently united with Russia’s Left Front. “They lit flares because they have fire in their hearts,” Udaltsov gushed.
We suspected that a red putsch might take place in Moscow this past election season. It didn’t. However, when the Soviet strategists determine that the time is propitious–that is, that America is surrounded by Communist Bloc nations and under the thumb of a socialist government–the United Russia facade will be removed and the Soviet Union hastily reassembled. That time is probably near since on November 4 US voters elected socialist Obama to the presidency and over the last few months Russia has begun to openly assemble a Red Dawn-style military coalition in Latin America. In a speech delivered at the November 15 national convention of the Communist Party USA, leader Sam Webb triumphed:
The left can and should advance its own views and disagree with the Obama administration without being disagreeable. Its tone should be respectful. We are speaking to a friend. When the administration and Congress take positive initiatives, they should be wholeheartedly welcomed. Nor should anyone think that everything will be done in 100 days. After all, main elements of the New Deal were codified into law in 1935, 1936 and 1937.
Although we are not in the socialist stage of the revolutionary process, we are, nevertheless on the road, and the only road, to socialism – to a society that is egalitarian in the rough sense, eliminates exploitation of working people, brings an end to all forms of oppression, and is notable for the many-layered participation of working people and their allies in the management of the economy and state.
Zyuganov, Hu Jintao, Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, and other Communist Bloc leaders would no doubt give Comrade Sam a hearty slap on the back.
Once Upon a Time in the West 
>Er, I think Comrade Sam might be upset with the victory of a Republican Senator who is keeping far left Democrats’ control of Congress away.He must be fuming over Chambliss’ win. But also, I’m sure Comrade Sam would also attack any centrist Democrat who replaced their Republican counterparts as being “proxies of the far/ultra right” whom are preventing Comrade Barry from changing the USA.